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He'd probably be great there, too, but why? Just to put our weakest defensive OF in CF? That is the most insane part of the suggestion. Abreu is more than fine in CF, even if not worthy of the GG. He also has a plus arm. He's got 15 assists in the 220 or so games he's play in RF since 2024. He gets good jumps and reads on balls hit to RF. Why mess with RF? It's one of our strengths.

Yes, true. Abreu is a better defender in RF and probably LF, though. He has more power. He hit lefties better over his first 100+ PAs than Duran did at the start of his career. He has not been given the same opportunity to hit lefties, like Duran was after his poor start. I'd really like to keep them both, and both have plusses the other does not. Both have one or two different minuses, as well. If we can get a better return for Abreu, I'd be fine with him as the package headliner for Ryan.

Here are the teams we have struggled with, so far, this year: 0-3 MIL & DET (We end the year w 3 vs DET) 1-5 LAA (WTF?!? There is always one like them.) 3-7 TOR (We have 3 more at TOR, right before we play DET to end the season) 1-2 CHC, PHI, SDP & SFG 3-4 TEX 4-5 BAL (We play them next for 4.) Our best records vs... 8-2 TBR (3 more with them) 6-1 NYY (5 more with them) 3-0 STL, WSN & COL 4-2 HOU, KCR 2-1 LAD, NYM, MIA, CIN, CLE (3 more w CLE) 4-3 CHW Teams we have yet to play... 6 v ATH 3 v PIT

As long as no Mansieres are on that table, okay.

The two worst batters vs LHPs, this year (150+ PAs) .509 Lowe .590 Duran (7th in MLB in PAs vs LHPs.) One could argue both should platoon. (Abreu is at .721 in 64 PAs but was worse, last year and career.) 2023-2025 vs LHPs: .527 DHam (68 PAs) .607 Abreu (141 PAs) .641 Duran (457 PAs) Worst MLB OPS vs LHPs since 2023 (400+ PAs) .611 de la Cruz .620 A Gimenez .624 Cronenworth .630 B Donovan .638 McMahon .641 Duran (only 2 players have more PAs vs lefties and a lower OPS than Duran.) If Abreu is an issue due to platooning needs, then so is Duran. Just because Cora does not platoon Duran does not change the data.

I think he played a game there for Woo. Maybe, someday, but I'm not sure he should play his second career game at 1B on the MLB club. Someday, maybe. BTW, he's supposed to to be a plus defender at corner OF and maybe okay in CF, but so are our current OF'er, for the most part.

KC may become an athletic DH, someday, which pressure even more from the bat.

An interesting thing is, I was being called out for defending/supporting Fred, because I said he was right about the team flopping for so many years. I'm not sure about the 2-3 players thing, as he apparently believes more than half this team sucks- even a guy with a 3.1 fWAR.

So just call him "nickname pending?"

Good pull! I doubt May becomes Nate, but he's doing very well, so far.

I'm 100% in on Jh Garcia. I agree. He will make trading Duran much easier. (We could trade Abreu, but I think it will be Duran.) This is not about not valuing Duran. I do. I think he will help land us Ryan. Garcia is a RHB with power. Adding the LHB Lowe helps, too.

That's a good one, too. I think "Password" should go. Do we mostly agree on that?

That bat flip/Mic drop was a classic. This kid has it.

Thanks. I'm not disputing anyone's fandom, although I have sounded like I have in the past. I do think Fred loves the Sox, and I can remember feeling a lot of the same type of negativity towards the Sox for several decades, but it was never all-consuming, like it appears to be with him. I get that the heat of the moment anger and frustration makes people say some things they really don't believe, but Fred doubles down on it and I think he actually thinks more than "half our team sucks," Cora and Brez are "idiots" and we will "flop again, this year, because it's who we are." (I paraphrased the last one.) I know there are extreme views on just about everything, and to me, this is overboard. I said he was "trolling" and maybe that was a step, too far, but it does seem like he enjoys getting under posters' skin. He really does not bother me as much as he seems to bother others. We have been "flops," and many of us have been very angry about that and the apparent and actual factual willingness of our management team to allow it to happen. I just don't see why what a near totally different team did 2, 3, 4 or 5 years ago means this team will do the same. I see that as a flaw in logic and call it out as such. Hell, this team is even way different from the 2024 team! 3 of the 5 opening day SP'ers are gone or out for the season (Pivetta, Crawford and Houck) and one is in the pen, now (Whitlock,) where most of us felt he belonged from day one. Our 1-2 RP'er are gone (Jansen & Martin) along with Wink, Joely, and Chase. I Campbell was just demoted. That's 6 of 8 RP'ers changed out. While Story started the 2024 season at SS, he was out for most of the year. The entire rest of the infield is new: Casas> Lowe, EValdez/Reyes> Romy/Dham and Devers>Bregman. We swapped out O'Neill for Anthony and have had a revolving DH, instead of Yoshida FT. Then, Narvaez> McGuire/Jansen. Way more than half this team was not a major part of the 2024 team. Okay: same manager and same CBO, but some different coaches and farm guys.

Approx HRs per 650... 35 Abreu 30 Bregman 25 Story 24 Refsnyder 23 Rafaela 21 Romy 20 Mayer 18 Narvaez 14 Duran 13 Anthony

I like "SCRABBLE" as his nickname.

I've been high on both of these brothers for a while, perhaps unjustified. So far, both have put up some good numbers. Do you think Jo Garcia can stick at catcher?

How about, "Hey YOU!?"

"Alphabet Soup" is too long. How about just "Alphabet?"

DET will have clinched it's division and may be resting their starters. Maybe, TOR might, too, but not 4-6 days before the final day.

Our deense should be doing better than the results showing more unearned runs allowed than anyone else. Our baserunning is above average, before you factor in bonehead blunders running into outs. Our SP'ers are above average and maybe top 5 in the AL. If we make the playoffs, our top 3-4 SP'er match up pretty well with just about anyone. Our pen looks like top 2-3 by many numbers, but it feels more like top 5-7 in MLB and top 2-3 in the AL. Our offense has struggled, lately but is still top 3-4 in the AL. That should be enough to make the playoffs, and as we saw last night, other AL contenders, like the Yanks, make the same or more mistakes than we do, very often. The Yanks have played well, over the past week or two, but have been under .500 over a long stretch and look more like "flops" than we do. I guess we'll find out, soon. I like our chances. I like watching this team. They have spunk, spark and grit. I may be more optimistic about our extended future than this year, but the AL has no clear great teams. Roll the dice and think, "Yes, we can!"

Or, "Change your password to 000000!"

Jay-Gee is too hard to say.

Toro was a serious drag on the team for way too long, but it looks better, now. Next up: 2B.

We cannot forget our passwords!